Meta has shut down an AI image feature that let users manipulate photos of people by simply tagging their public Instagram account, just days after launching it. Corbin Bolies reports for Variety that the company faced immediate backlash over the tool’s design. The feature was part of Meta’s new Muse Image model, introduced on Tuesday. …
A German court has ruled that Google is legally responsible for the content of its AI-generated search summaries. Bruce Schneier writes for Schneier on Security that the court rejected Google’s argument that users should verify AI output themselves, ruling instead that the summaries are “an expression of Google’s business activities.” The decision reignites a long-running …
KPMG has removed a report about artificial intelligence from its websites after multiple organizations named in the document said its claims were false. Anthony Ha reports for TechCrunch that the inaccuracies appear to stem from AI hallucinations, meaning the firm likely used AI to help produce a report about AI adoption. The report, titled “Redefining …
An AI detection tool called Pangram has become the dominant force in identifying AI-generated writing, influencing decisions at publishers, universities, and scientific institutions. Matteo Wong reports for The Atlantic that Pangram has been used to flag a horror novel pulled before publication, articles in major newspapers, award-winning short stories, and portions of Pope Leo XIV’s …
Google’s redesigned search experience is experiencing novel problems: users discovered that searching for the word “disregard” and similar terms can return a nearly empty AI-generated response. Russell Brandom reports for TechCrunch that the new interface buries traditional search results far below the fold, replacing them with AI summaries that, in this case, provide no useful …
AI chatbots from some of the world’s biggest tech companies can be manipulated into spreading misinformation through a simple technique. Thomas Germain reports for the BBC that a single, well-crafted blog post published almost anywhere online can be enough to influence what tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews tell the public. Germain …
A new study from Microsoft Research reveals that large language models (LLMs) silently corrupt documents during extended, multi-step workflows, often in ways that are nearly impossible for humans to detect. Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat that even the best-performing AI models degrade an average of 25% of document content across these workflows. The research team …
Google’s AI Overviews are accurate about 91 percent of the time. This sounds good at first, but Tripp Mickle and colleagues report for The New York Times that this still means the search engine delivers tens of millions of incorrect answers every hour. The New York Times commissioned AI startup Oumi to test Google’s system …
A deceptively simple question has exposed a widespread reasoning failure across the artificial intelligence industry. Felix Wunderlich writes for opper.ai that 42 out of 53 leading AI models answered incorrectly when asked: “I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?” The correct answer is, of …
A bug in Google Gemini is causing chat histories to disappear from the sidebar for a large number of users. Entire conversation lists are going blank, with some users losing up to a year of stored chats. Reports have surfaced on Reddit, Google’s own support forums, and other platforms, affecting both free and paid subscribers …